You don't really want my side of the story. You don't want to understand me, know me, to crawl inside of my head. You don't want to feel the things I've felt. You just want to know that one thing: why...
You had to write it, and he had to play it, and I'm just so grateful I got to see it.
Happy to no longer expect the dead perfection of museum art, but embrace the sweet lovely mess that is real life.
Imagine never leaving North Idaho again. He’s got his coffee and he’s got his ritual, his work around the cabin, and with the new satellite dish Lydia buys him for his birthday, he’s got nine hundred...
On the street they moved with purpose, at different speeds but in straight lines, like a thousand bullets fired at a thousand different angles from a thousand different guns. All of these people movin...
The water. The feral cats scattered before her.
Agent: This book doesn’t work. Shane: You mean, in your opinion. Agent: I mean in English).
A hole opened up and he had to know what was inside it. So he picked and picked until the hole was huge, and then everything sort of... fell in, him, his wife, his kid, and this fragile life they'd bu...
A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: desire, disappointment, and the sea.
All we have is the story we tell. Everything we do, every decision we make, our strength, weakness, motivation, history, and character-what we believe-none of it is ; it's all part of the story we tel...
And because he felt like he might burst open and because he lacked the dexterity in English to say all that he was thinking--how in his estimation, the more you lived the more regret and longing you s...
And if a moment exists only in one’s perception anyway, then perhaps the rush of feeling he has now is THE MOMENT, and not merely its shadow. Maybe every moment occurs at once, and they will always be...
And on and on it goes, in a thousand directions, everything occurring at once, in a great storm of the present, of now - all those lovely wrecked lives.
And what she loved about Lydia’s play: that it gets at this idea that true sacrifice is painless.
Be confident and the world responds to your confidence, rewards your faith.
Being alive isn't the same thing as living
But I think some people wait forever, and only at the end of their lives do they realize that their life has happened while they were waiting for it to start. Do
Caroline was struck by just how close twenty-four feet really is, how little space really exists between us. Of course they were different, Lenny Ryan’s shooting of the pawnbroker, her own shooting of...
Even if they don't find what they're looking for, isn't it enough to be out walking together in the sunlight?
He found himself inhabiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.
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